Instrument informations and live-preview

Instrument classnames

The names of the available instrument classes available in the pymanip.instruments module can be conveniently obtained from the command line:

$ python -m pymanip list_instruments

Scanning for instruments

Two command line tools are provided to scan for instruments:

• the list_daq sub-command searches for acquisition cards using the NI-DAQmx library;

• the scan_gpib sub-command searches for connected GPIB devices using the linux-gpib free library (linux only). On Windows and Macs, this is not useful because one can simply use the GUI provided by National Instruments (NI MAX).